Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument ensued, and some of Waly's followers grabbed the lighted torches. One of them stumbled. A tree flared up with a whoosh. In panic, others threw their torches away. In a moment the yard became an oil-soaked pyre. The impregnated sawdust blazed like napalm, clinging to raw flesh, burning and spreading. The crowd, roaring with fear and pain, ran from side to side in the narrow schoolyard. But there was no escape: three of the walls were 10 feet high; the only exit was a narrow gate. It was over in 20 minutes: 33 died, hundreds more...
...peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array...
Fleeing to London to study art, she came back with an incomprehensible bad habit-smoking cigarettes. Trailing ; thin plume of smoke, Emily escaped again, this time to Paris. In Paris she felt "like a pine tree in a pot," but learned to paint in what she called "the despised, adorable, joyous, modern...
Outside the Graduate Center at Harvard Law School stands the modern, metallic "World Tree...
Some would claim that Yale's figures show a sense of humor and a relaxed approach to the law, while Harvard's "Tree" is cold and forbidding. Others might say that the medieval scenes at Yale indicate Yale is living in the past, and that Harvard is the school not only of the present, but of the future...